Sentences with phrase «film takes liberties»

The film takes liberties with this and many other historical details, notably giving Burger a larger role in the movie than he has ever claimed for himself.

As is to be expected, the film takes some liberties in telling Sonora's tale, namely by condensing events that took place over several years into a productive span at the budding of her womanhood.

So, like many films «inspired by true events», the film takes liberties with the facts.

I'm hoping the films take some liberties with the materials and at least show us that, yes, they are at war and not just talk about it.

Not exact matches

When another version of the Deadpool character had appeared in the 2009 film X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the representation alienated many longtime fans for several reasons, not the least of which was the liberty it took with his costume.

The movie took a lot of liberties with the plot, but it remained one of the more theologically informed supernatural films in the Hollywood canon, owing largely to its reliance on Catholic teaching.

Most fall either on the side of big - budget films that take plenty of artistic liberties with...

Many liberties are taken, which is weird since the book is quite short, and the film is two and a half hours.

The film takes certain liberties with history, it is true.

Comedy films are a genre of film that unfortunately have a lot of liberties taken with it.

When you see «based on a true story» title cards in films, audiences usually suspect dramatic liberties to be taken.

The film does tend to feel a tad long, while taking certain liberties in the stories that don't feel particularly satisfying.

It's there that the film's ultraviolent battles take place, and while history buffs and medieval action fans will kvetch about anachronistic details of weaponry, fighting techniques and liberties taken with established facts, the selling point of «Ironclad» is its violence.

What emerges is a film tinged with irony and filled with many a fourth wall — breaking moment where characters, including Harding's mother (played by Allison Janney), comment on the liberties being taken with this rags - to - near - riches story.

The story itself is also true to history, with some acceptable liberties taken for the film: Commodus really was a dangerous madman, and he really was in the habit of fighting in the gladiatorial arena.

Of course, the fact that this film is produced by Sony and takes place semi-outside of the Marvel Cinematic Universe means that some liberties had to be taken in order to have the character work on his own.

Unfortunately, the film takes too many liberties with the true historical facts surrounding Barnum, of which we are supposed to forgive.

However, the film takes a truth - telling liberty in the way it chose its starring casts.

The Harry Potter films, for example, were taken to task when liberties were taken with the J.K. Rowling novels.

The film honors the legacy of Chris Kyle, but it also takes a lot of liberty in portraying who the man actually was.

Director Guy Ritchie takes liberties with the story while giving the film ye old comic - book twist.

While the account of her story in The Longshots takes plenty of liberties with the actual details of her life, the script sticks to the tried and true football film genre like a determined defensive back.

My biggest gripe is a minor one compared to some of the liberties taken in the live - action films, but the character model for Ada Wong doesn't fully capture the sexpot femme fatale properly.

Despite complaints from comic book purists about the liberties this film takes with the source material, it manages to present both Xavier and Magneto as fresh and rich characters who are both worth exploring.

In this Reverse Shot Talkie, director Matías Piñeiro browses the aisles of a Greenwich Village bookstore with host Eric Hynes to talk about adaptation as an art of taking liberties, the beauty of mess, and his ongoing relationship with William Shakespeare, whose plays have inspired many of his films, including his latest, The Princess of France.

(I haven't read Jeff VanderMeer's novel on which the film is based, but enough fans are bitching online for me to surmise the film has taken considerable liberties with the source material.)

That, though, was but one of a rash of Ip Man films to emerge in the wake of 2008's «Ip Man,» which starred Hong Kong action hero Donnie Yen and took substantial liberties with Ip's life story.

Whatever liberties it takes with the source — and apparently it takes many — suit the film and help turn it into an entertaining adventure that flies through its 169 minutes quickly.

A combination of Tolkien's «Hobbit» text and material from his «Rings» appendices, the script, which again saw input from «Rings» film trilogy co-writers Fran Walsh and Phillippa Boyens, takes a great deal of liberties, bringing back familiar characters like Galadriel (Cate Blanchett), Elrond (Hugo Weaving) and Saruman (Christopher Lee), none of whom appear in the «Hobbit» book, and making ample, ominous mention of the «Necromancer,» who will evolve to become the dreaded Lord Sauron.

Craig Gillespie's rollicking retelling of infamous figure skater Tonya Harding's rise and fall might take several dramatic liberties (peep the new trailer for a bloody - faced Margot Robbie mugging for the camera in one shot while brandishing a shotgun in pursuit of Harding's ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, in another), but, at its core, I, Tonya is a film rooted in the rich, real - life story of a deeply troubled athlete fighting for her place in the world.

The film is peppered by Berkowitz's own narration, in which he makes wry comments and observations on the events in retrospect, and, I suspect, he's also taken certain dramatic liberties with some situations (most notably, the downward fortunes of his producer, Elie Samaha).

But fans reacted violently at the more egregious artistic liberties taken by the filmmakers, which effectively defanged the Merc with a Mouth and turned him into the film's de facto villain.

And because this is indeed a family game, look for some liberties to be taken in the name of humor, such as the scene with Kylo Ren and Darth Vader's helmet that plays out... quite differently from the original film.

Based on the comic book Red, this film adaptation (which takes several liberties with the original story) may be disappointing to fans of the series.

In this Reverse Shot Talkie, director Matías Piñeiro browses the aisles of Greenwich Village bookstore Mercert Street Books with host Eric Hynes to talk about adaptation as an art of taking liberties, the beauty of mess, and his ongoing relationship with William Shakespeare, whose plays have inspired many of his films, including his latest, The Princess of France.

Stephen Sondheim himself sits down to share his philosophy on adapting stage musicals for film and his willingness to see liberties taken with his own widely revered score.

Thankfully, just as Disney handled their 2011 «Pooh» film with care, and Blue Sky did the same with their 2015 «Peanuts Movie», Sony Pictures Animation stays very respectful to «The Star»» s source material (the «mother» of all source material — The Bible), while taking some appropriate creative liberties in order to craft a legitimate action story.

From the recent reimaginings of the Star Trek or X-Men franchises to the complete and total «you got it wrong so Imma gonna fix it» film adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans, movies have often taken «liberties» with the author's original intentions, often to the fans delight or chagrin.

Monsters vs. Aliens is an action platforming title that follows the plot of the film well, even though it takes many liberties in order to create levels that accommodate all playable characters.

And I've taken the liberty of filming some of it for you guys.

Constantin Film, the corporate liable for the live - action Resident Evil movies starring Milla Jovovich, is ready to start filming and producing a movie based mostly on Capcom's liberty - taking wildlife simulator / searching sequence.

Quite aside from the chaotic and often dangerous production period that the movie's stars were forced to endure, the number of liberties taken with the film means that it bears little resemblance to its source material.

I am taking liberties by starting off the 2014 year in late 2013, but the fact of this show in Los Angeles, Sturtevant's first in decades, was an important lead - up to her retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art and a significant marker in her return to visibility in the U.S. Given her death prior to the opening of the MoMA show, this generous presentation of the film Finite Infinite (2010) underscored the importance of that space for bringing projects that would otherwise not be seen or given such gorgeous and ample space.

The French artist's black - and - white film, done in one take, will further investigate the movement's interest in liberty and equality.

But as we showed here (and here), Stewart's films took massive liberties with the facts of the climate debate, and even greater liberties with his treatment of the arguments of the «sceptics».